Warmup

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Warmup

• Name a religion diffused by each of the following
  trade routes
• Silk Road
• Trans-Saharan
• Indian Ocean
• Hanseatic League

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Due Thursday

• 355-360
• 2 pages OR 6 terms
• Ming Empire
• Forbidden City
• Zheng He
• Ming voyages
• Technology transfers
• Ming achievements

• Significance
• 1. What is it?
• 2. What is it similar to?
• 3. What caused it, or what did it cause?

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Growth of International Trade

• 1000-1500 CE

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TRADE MAP c. 100 C.E.
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THE POST-CLASSICAL CENTER

• Muslim World was the trade center
• Muslim countries linked all continents
• The Hajj came to link all Muslims together
• Quran is VERY favorable to merchants
• Exchanges not limited to goods
• Ideas
• Technology
• Diseases
• Populations

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TRADE IN THE MUSLIM WORLD
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ASIAN LAND TRADE ROUTES

• Silk Roads Across Central Asia
• Established during Han Dynasty by Nomads
• Chinese paid nomads tribute in silk, traded for
  horses
• Nomads traded silk, horses for glass, iron in West

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AFRO-EURASIAN TRADE c. 1400 C.E.
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TRANS-SAHARAN TRADE

• The Camel
• Made trade across desert possible
• Could carry great loads to trade
• From West Africa
• Gold, ivory, slaves, exotic feathers, spices
• Male slaves carried goods, then sold
• From Muslim North Africa
• Cloth, glass, metalwork, books
• Merchants, missionaries, travelers visited

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AFRICAN TRADE NETWORKS
Finished Goods, Iron Weapons, Books, Horses,
Spices
Gold, Slaves, Ivory, Feathers
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SIGNIFICANCE OF TRANS-SAHARAN AND EAST AFRICAN
TRADE

• Spread Civilization and Rise of Powerful African
  States
• Aided in the rise of West African Empires
• Ghana, Mali
• Provided most of Eurasias pre-Columbian gold,
  Islams slaves
• Spread Islam to West Africa

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MARITIME TRADE ROUTES

• Maritime Routes co-existed with land routes
• Often safer than land because fewer stops
• Seas nevertheless were not as forgiving as the
  land
• Requirements to maintain
• Elimination of piracy
• Good navigation technology, knowledge of the
  seasons
• Items with high profit margins to exchange
• Cities on coast with protected harbors link to
  land routes
• Spread diseases

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MAP OF THE VIKING WORLD
LONGSHIP
KNÓRR
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EUROPEAN TRADE ROUTES

• North Sea/Baltic Trade Routes
• Hanseatic League Northern German cities
• Maintained factories, trading depots in
  neighboring lands
• Cloth, wines, fish, timber, salt, iron, amber,
  copper

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HANSEATIC TRADE ROUTES
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